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Agnes Grey - A Novel

Anne Brontë

Publisher: Kerry Butters

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Agnes Grey a Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey is a trenchant exposé of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author’s own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.
Available since: 08/13/2019.

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